Hi everyone, I’m using Obsidian in Live Preview, and I noticed that when I write an embed like ![[note]], the link syntax is hidden unless I click on that line. What I want is: the ![[...]] text to stay visible all the time while the embedded content also stays expanded / rendered ideally…

There isn’t a built in setting. I believe a CSS snippet can do it. If you search the forum and Discord, you might find one. If you don’t find any for exactly what you want, a snippet that shows any hidden syntax in Live Preview would give you a starting point to adapt.

Yeah, I don’t know a way to stop them from being hidden, but we can kind of fake it with some CSS. If you don’t add any alt/attribute text, the link content will show as is, but you can add your own text using attribute text. e.g. ![[321-note| the 321 note, yay!]] .markdown-source-view .internal-e…

I’ve recently updated and the change to live preview that hides codes of images makes it super hard to work with notes that have images. I’d appreciate a toggle for this. still want to be in live preview, but when I’m on the element, I want to see the code. As it was previously.

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How can I stop ![[...]] embeds from being hidden in Live Preview?

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ariehen July 13, 2026, 8:40am 6

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